Memorial of the Senators and Representatives and the Constitution of the State of Kansas

26 KANSAS. Sec. 4. On the passage, in either house of the general assembly, of any law which imposes, continues, or renews a tax, or makes, continues, or renews an appropriation of public or trust money, or releases, discharges, or commutes a claim or demand of the State, the question shall be taken by yeas and nays, which shall be duly entered on the journal. And three-fifths of all the members elected to each house shall, in all cases, be required to constitute a quorum. ARTICLE XII. County and Township Officers. Section 1. The general assembly shall provide by law for the election of county, city, town, and township officers. Sec. 2. All officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this constitution, shall be elected by the people, or appointed as the general assembly may by law direct. Sec. 3. Provision shall be made by law for the removal, for misconduct or malversation in office, of all officers whose powers and duties are not local or legislative, and who shall be elected at general elections, and also for supplying vacancies created by such removal. Sec. 4. The legislature may declare the cases in which any office may be deemed vacant, where no provision is made for that purpose in this constitution. ARTICLE XIII. Corporations. Section 1. The general assembly shall not create corporations by special act, except for municipal purposes. Sec. 2. Corporations may be formed under general laws, but such laws may at any time be altered or repealed. ARTICLE XIV. Jurisprudence. Section 1. The general assembly at its first session shall constitute three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to revise, reform, simplify, and abridge the rules of practice, pleadings, forms, and proceedings of the courts of record of this State, and to provide, so far as practicable and expedient, that justice shall be administered by intelligible and uniform proceedings, without any distinction between law and equity. Sec. 2. The proceedings of the commissioners shall be reported to the general assembly, and be subject to the action of that body. ARTICLE XV. Miscellaneous. Section 1. The first general assembly shall locate the permanent seat of government.

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